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  1. Old Red
    You may be right, but I also think that Boston was not Story’s first choice, but the money was to good to pass up. Seems strange that he fired his agent afterwards.
  2. Old Red
    The only thing I have heard was the 1 yr ext for $30M. I don’t believe a 3 yr ext for $30M would have been good enough.
  3. Old Red
    I don’t think Signing Story has quashed anything at all, and like I mentioned before was just a result of John Henry’s Rabbit Ears telling Bloom to go , and do something to appease the fans. Just an opinion.
  4. Old Red
    Moon I’d trust your trades as a GM, but I wouldn’t let you near a pen to sign any 14 yr contracts.
  5. Old Red
    I agree, but on the other hand just because someone is a GM doesn’t mean they are a good one, and just because something may work in Tampa doesn’t mean it will work in Boston.
  6. Old Red
    We’ve already moved on with all of this with a verdict that no one is going to change their mind.
  7. Old Red
    I agree, and I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree, because no one is changing anyones mind, and the worst thing is those 6 xtra innings losses aren’t changing to the win column either.
  8. Old Red
    You keep going back to the offense, which has already been established is the biggest problem, but it’s also a fact in the 0-6 xtra innings that the so called closer not named Whitlock has blown a 1 run lead. You keep hoping that those one run leads were 3 run leads, but they weren’t, and the closer blew all 6. What part of that don’t you understand?
  9. Old Red
    Whitlock is their best pitcher, but the Red Sox have not won a game when he has started. It has already been established that hitting is the biggest problem, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that they are 0-6 in xtra innings, and have blow a 1 run lead in all 6 in the 8-9 innings five times that wouldn’t have made it into xtra innings to begin with. I guess you don’t care about those losses. Hitting I repeat is a problem, but FACTS are 0-6 in extra innings, and a 1 run lead was blown in all. Henry, and Bloom are to blame, and so isn’t Cora.
  10. Old Red
    Mainly yes, but Houck too. I believe that things have gotten worse since Whitlock went into the rotation, and Houck went to play piggyback, which I don’t think would have happened at least now if Houck had been vaxed, and not missed Toronto, because that’s when the changes were made, and things even got worse.
  11. Old Red
    It’s Cora’s fault he doesn’t know how to use the pitchers he has.
  12. Old Red
    I agree 100% it’s on Bloom, and Cora that the proper closer hasn’t been used.
  13. Old Red
    Someone on here said Cora was a magician with the bullpen. Well his magic show has been canceled.
  14. Old Red
    You still for some reason won’t admit that the lack of a closer has cost the Red Sox games this year. Sat was the latest example, and even though it was just a 1 run lead a good closer should be able to protect that. The fact that the Red Sox don’t want to use one cost them the game. Offense is still the biggest problem, but the lack of a closer is 1B, and they have lost games, because of it. I’ll repeat for the 10th time that offense is the problem, but the closer has been a problem too, and that is on the Bloomer, and the Beard.
  15. Old Red
    NESN ratings have not been very good so far this season, and probably going down even more with every loss.
  16. Old Red
    I’m sure you remember the famous game of 1963 between Juan Marichel, and 42 year old Warren Spahn that ended up with both throwing complete games. Juan ended up with a 16 inning shoutout, and Spahn gave up a one out HR in the 16th, and lost 1-0. Both pitchers combined threw 428 pitches. Managers, and the analytics nerds today would have to be put n straight jackets to watch something like that.
  17. Old Red
    But when you leave out the disparity now of pitchers thrown, and innings pitched your leaving out two very important factors.
  18. Old Red
    Pitchers used to go every 4th day too, and 120-130 pitches weren’t that big a deal then either. Lonborg made 39 starts in 67, and only pitched less than 5 innings 4 times that year.
  19. Old Red
    They might just as well bat Bogey, Raffy, and JD 1-2-3.
  20. Old Red
    I agree, but unless something happens like Morgan Magic things are looking pretty bleak.
  21. Old Red
    You don’t counter offer an offer that was so low ball in more ways than one. Bogey is the leader in that clubhouse, and on the field, but I don’t think anyone is tanking although I do think the rest of the team was disgusted by it. The low ball offer shouldn’t be condoned either.
  22. Old Red
    Does anyone think Story Land will open up at all this year? I’m beginning to wonder.
  23. Old Red
    Bring me Dick Radtz any day.
  24. Old Red
    Taking starting pitchers out, because of what might happen has been one of the biggest changes in the game, and also the big increase in the shift.
  25. Old Red
    I think analytics takes the thinking, and strategy mostly out of the games, and have turned managers more into robots than ones that actually watches the game, and makes adjustments on what he sees instead of what he might see.
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